Piano Solo Album. Par HEUMANN HANS-GUNTER. Hans-Günter Heumanns Notenalben sind von unseren Klavierpulten nicht mehr wegzudenken. Längst gehören seine Klaviermethoden und Spielbände zum Standardkanon heutiger Unterrichtsliteratur. Gestrandet zwischen Hanon-Etüden, Scarlatti-Sonaten und zweistimmigen Inventionen haben Heumanns Arrangements schon so manchen Hobby-Pianisten vor dem „Hinschmeißen“ bew…

These pieces may be performed individually or as a five-movement suite. Numbers 1 4 and 5 are also published for upper voices and keyboard as Three Birthday Madrigals. The music captures the varied moods of the words with their rapture sorrow humour and vitality in a way which makes these classic madrigal texts come alive for contemporary audiences.

In the early years of our century when vital new forces were revolutionising the arts Russian-born Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915) was one of the visionary pioneers who sought a new musical language. At least a full decade before the advances of Stravinsky and Schoenberg Scriabin had begun the process of a complete break with all musical conventions. By 1905 he was immersed in a search for a way…

Commissioned by The Maryland State Boychoir in 2017 this striking Christmas piece sets a famous text by Ben Jonson. Jackson's attractive and largely diatonic harmonies combine with vivid word-setting deft manipulations of texture and a colourful organ part to create a mood of gentle rapture with a central section that explores more conflicted atmospheres.

Par SCHOENBERG ARNOLD. The two poems by Stefan George 'Litanei' and 'Rapture ' were worked by Schoenberg into a set of variations and into a finale far removed from traditional notions of form. The vocal reduction of the 3rd movement 'Litanei' is available as UE 6862, the vocal reduction for the 4th movement 'Entrückung ' is available as UE6863. The string parts are available as UE 2994. 'This qua…

Scriabin's ten complete piano sonatas offer a fascinating insight into the Russian composer's stylistic development. While his first works still fully reflect the late-romantic tradition, the late works keep bursting the bounds of tonality. The boldly outlined, two-movement Fourth Sonata marks a turning point, for it evokes the world of the 'Poème de l'extase? with its mystical atmosphere hovering…

Setting an intimate almost private text by Texas poet sculptor and song writer Bill Worrell David Brunner has crafted a thoughtful expressive and mature piece not often found for 2 part choir. If you could fly where would yougo? “I Would sing with rapture until the end of time. That's what I would do if I could fly.” Such poetry is the stuff that dreams are made of and your singer…

The first performance of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio “Messiah” on 13 April 1742 in Dublin aroused unqualified rapture. A newspaper report a few days later declared that it combined “the Sublime, the Grand, and the Tender”. Its success has remained undiminished ever since, and the “Messiah” has taken its place in musical life.

In 2009, to mark the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death,…

A song cycle for Tenor Baritone and Piano four-hands.Commissioned by Dickinson College in 2008 for The Florestan Recital Project Musical Artists in ResidenceFirst performance March 4 2010 Dickinson College PAThis work is dedicated to Don and Marilyn Conlan ''The seventeen poems selected for this work span many centuries and languages and give very varied views on the subject of love. There is…